Rahul Gandhi’s remarks row NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill making punishment in paper leak cases more stringent and trial speedier with a voice vote as the House was plunged into bedlam, as opposition members, including Rahul Gandhi, demanded a response from govt over the police crackdown on students during their Sansad…
Two rescued after Panama-flagged cargo ship sinks off Odisha coast; search on for 22 crew members VISAKHAPATNAM: Two crew members were rescued after a Panama-flagged bulk carrier carrying 24 people sank in the Bay of Bengal, about 230 nautical miles off Paradip coast of Odisha, with the Indian Coast Guard and Eastern Naval Command (ENC)…
The tax tribunal held that the Income-tax (I-T) department could not deny the exemption merely based on suspicion Buying a residential property from one’s own spouse does not, by itself, make the transaction a colourable device to avoid tax, the Mumbai bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held, allowing a woman’s claim…
FILE (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Hundreds of University of California faculty members have signed an open letter urging the UC regents and faculty leaders to restore standardized testing requirements for Math and Science applicants. The letter cites an alarming drop in Math skills since the tests were abandoned. The UC system stopped accepting SAT and…
Actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh‘s ‘Satluj’ also starring Arjun Rampal finally released on OTT after much trouble and issue with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). The film directly releasing on the digital platform after the CBFC suggested 120 cuts. But now just two days after its release on Zee5, the film has been removed and…
MUMBAI: NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule was among hundreds of commuters stranded in a massive traffic jam on the Lonavala–Khandala ghat stretch on Friday, as a sudden weekend rush and Maharashtra Day traffic brought vehicular movement on the Mumbai–Pune Expressway to a near standstill.According to reports, vehicle queues stretched up to 5 km, leaving commuters…
Vande The video captures Vande Bharat’s breathtaking monsoon spectacle. There are few sights quite like a train disappearing into a wall of mist and emerging moments later against a backdrop of lush green mountains. A new aerial video of the Vande Bharat Express doing exactly that in Karnataka has left social media users mesmerised.The footage…
Nearly three months after war broke out in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz emerged as the centre of a dangerous global energy crisis, the United States-Israel and Iran still appear far from sealing a final agreement despite intense diplomatic activity and repeated claims of progress from both sides.Even after US President Donald…
KOLKATA: Suspended Trinamool MLA Humayun Kabir has acknowledged that a video released by the party – purportedly showing him seeking Rs 1,000 crore from BJP and calling Muslims “gullible” – is authentic but alleged it was selectively edited from a 51-minute recording. The admission has handed Trinamool fresh ammunition against BJP ahead of Bengal polls…
Priscilla Chan’s journey from the daughter of Vietnamese refugees to a Harvard graduate, paediatrician and major science philanthropist is rooted in a family story shaped by war and migration. Her grandparents put her parents, who were teenagers at the time, on boats to flee Vietnam during the war. Chan grew up in Massachusetts, where her…